Change of Career advice and help

Have your wonderings cast any light on this? Is it an unreasonable expectation to seek job satisfaction? Should people be miserable most of the time as long as it pays the bills?

Have wondered alot. Its not unreasonable, but from people I know and personal experience the moment it becomes work its no longer fun. Work is a means to a financial end to me, its probably me thats wrong but its what I feel.

its probably me thats wrong

must resist

balki is polish these days? wtf?

woot, road trip along the surf coast in the pipeline for summer.

in the panny?

wish, you know how much they're worth?!

that bmw sold, so looking at a friends rat inspired VH wagon with EFI 5l, new driveline and suspension.

woot, road trip along the surf coast in the pipeline for summer.

I envy this. I could really do with a surf right now. Old van, a few boards in the back, mates, road, summer.... fuck work!

back on topic. I'm a designer/art director creative type and freelancing. I love the idea of what I do but ultimately I whore myself to paying jobs, not the satisfying ones. I suspect it'll be this way until i finally crack, move back to aus and start illustrating books, esp. tacky covers for sci fi novels. Then I'll prob be happy.

Point> try new things, don't be scared. At least life will be interesting.

lowpug, dude thats what i'm doing. i'm just about to leave a job with guarenteed work till 2013 to go back to aus, to no job at all. saying that i've got a phd and done a couple post-docs at imperial college. so i know i'm not unemployable. but yeah, i'm sick of travelling around the world chasing jobs!

so i know i'm not employable.

Acceptance is the first step.

ha, deserves an edit!

As I am so bored at work, I'm actually looking into this a bit more.

£11,580/year for 3 years up front? Fuckadoodledoo.

Post a wanted ad. Donations. If every active member gave you £1 to change your life then that'd do it.

I pledge £1

While we're at it I need £6000 for a years course at the Lycee de Viticole in Beaune. That's only 50p each people, c'mon!

I thought my whole life had changed last night, after a cunty day at work. i was that pissed off that i started looking for jobs. i found the perfect job for me advertised - great company, down the road, good money and an opportunity to expand. been waiting for ages for something like this to come up, so i sat up all last night writing a covering letter and a shitting arse cv only to ring them and find out they had filled the position a couple of days ago.

poosticks.

they still want me to send in my cv, though.

The Department of Health (DoH) pays tuition fees for all UK and EU students

From Kings web page. Kattie, are you not grandfathered in?

Perhaps similar to lowplug - designer by long long training, quit an office job a year ago because I got tired of the combative dick-waving and soul-sucking tedium of the reality of the construction industry. I felt like I was disappearing, turning into someone else. Plus, enforced, unpaid overtime for everyone (industry standard), more for me because apparently i have higher quality control than strictly necessary, combined with a pay cut for everyone, pushed it.

I had an excuse to quit (look after parents) and since then I've been 'freelancing' but not much of it. Responsibility free, able to exercise as much quality control as I like. I'm over-qualified and undercharge for what I do, but i'm happy. Unfortunately I'm nowhere near breaking even and have pretty much run out of money. Can't face going back to full time office work. Do not want.

Been teaching part-time for a few years, just one day a week. Love it. At the moment find it impossible to resist going in on extra (unpaid) days, but I enjoy it so much. Everyone who's bailed or been sacked over the last year or two is looking for uni work though, so the chances of me finding additional teaching work is super-slim. Wish I didn't have to make money.

Not that helpful. Good luck.

Ancestry visa holders have no recourse to public funds.

To get a passport you have to have a U.K born parent, Grandma and Grandpa just don't cut it anymore. The only other option is a stay of 6 years.

If the DoH pay fees KP then maybe get a job with them and study part time?

Are there any "well done you made it out of here to go and study in the big wide world" type grants available from your home town, your country, a society over here?

Yep Damo, and there is a man dressed in red due sometime soon.

While we're at it I need £6000 for a years course at the Lycee de Viticole in Beaune. That's only 50p each people, c'mon!

cough

"lycée viticole"

I think its all under control for now anyway - well I can forget about it for a bit. Xmas next week, a couple of weeks of Jan, then in Feb I'm running away for a bit. Asked the boss for a month off leave w/o pay yesterday and he said yep..... actually I think he thinks I'm clinically depressed and he's worried I'm going to leave for good, so basically I can have as much time off as I want. I'm thinking of lying in a beach in india for 4 weeks, then heading home for a couple. Maybe by then he'll have thought up a project for me to work on? If not I can always quit.

To get a passport you have to have a U.K born parent, Grandma and Grandpa just don't cut it anymore. The only other option is a stay of 6 years.

Fuckin' 'ell, if you and KP are staying that long, I'm off...

Last few days of my job here, starting a new one in Jan, not all that different in terms of what I'll be doing, but back on 5 days work, a bit more money and the chance to learn some exciting new shit like 3DSmax. Also moving to Bristol, I've been fixated with moving to London for ages, now I'm just relieved to be moving out of my hometown. I think I'm slowly losing my mind here in the 'burbs.